Overall GPA vs IOE GPA

777Blue77
Sun, 12 Jan 2014 00:31:58 +0000

“if a person’s major GPA was actually significantly higher than his cumulative(i.e. 3.7= in all CS classes 2.9 in others), but clearly states that he had a 3.7 major GPA and leaves out the cumulative. Does this look particularly bad. Even if s/he was later asked for a transcript, it’s not actually a lie.”

Below is what bearcats said.

“No. I have never looked beyond cumulative gpa when screening resumes. And if someone just puts major gpa on resume, I just assume the cum gpa is below 3.6 and toss it.”

By just putting your major GPA, it appears that you are trying to hide your cumulative GPA (which you are). That does NOT look good. However, there are some employers who probably would not even notice this.